Drive

Drive

Posted On: November 3, 2011
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★★★★

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Year: 2011

All I can say is, Cliff Martinez’s soundtrack is possibly the soundtrack of the year, if not one of the best ever. The film is gorgeously shot on a cheap budget, but all of the scenes make sense if you’re familiar with LA, or rather, even if you’re not, it wouldn’t feel like LA. Refn shows us downtown LA from high above (there’s not really a downtown downtown). He shows the LA River, the beach but only at night when there’s a lightening storm, the view from the apartment on Echo Park, the only green around for miles. It’s all so well done and Ryan Gosling is great in it. Worth watching, just be prepared with some graphic violence.

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